Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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(although maternal grandmother was Gramma because that's how she spelled it, not how I said it).
When we first started writing on cards we went with the "Gramma/Grampa" spellings because of pronounciation even though we knew "Grandma/Grandpa" were more correct.
We are from New Jersey, after all. We need to conserve the letter "D" whenever possible... we're saving them up for all those eliminated "T"s.
I called my grandparents Dod and George and Sam and Barbara. We wuz free-thinkin' hippies.
My kids have Grandma Debbie and Grampy Don, Grandma and Grandpa (lastname), and Grandpa Toby and Grandma Terry.
ETA: I am eating mashed potatoes with numb lips. They gave me Hydrocodone! I could become an addict, dude!
my Grandma is GG to her now 8 great grandchildren.
My grandmom was GG to her greats who were around while she was alive too!
Both sets of grandparents were Grandmom & Grandad to us sometimes with the last name appended if there would be confusion. My parents are Granny & Grandad.
How was it, flea?
I had no Grandfathers, and called my Grandmothers Honey (she wasn't the Grandma type) and Nanny Gay (Gay = her last name). My parents are Granny and Papa. My mom is far too young (and looks younger than she is) to be Granny, but that's what she wanted. MiL will be called Grandma.
Grandma and Grandpa on one side, Poppa and Nana on the other. I have no idea what my putative children would call my mother.
I think my mother would want to be Mémère, like her mother before her, but like her father, Pepere or whatever the equivalent is would NOT work for my father, so who knows.
My mom is Bubbe, my dad is Pa Bill. E's parents are Grandma Pat and Grampa Bernie.
My grandparents are (or were) Granny/Grampa (also Gumpa or Pumpa), Nana/Granddaddy, Grandpa Dave/MiscFirstName. (Grandpa Dave = my dad's bio dad. By the time he died he was on his 5th wife. We didn't see him much.)
Oh, my stepmother's parents were Meme and Pepe (add French accents).
I was out cold for the tooth removal. Ver' niiice. Now my nose is back (numb nose = so weird!) but lips still numb, feel a little sore but not bad. Have taken various pills as preventative. All in all just fine. I like pudding, and an excuse to eat lots of it. We'll see if actual pain kicks in eventually.
My nephews called their other grandparents Mamaw and Papaw, emphasis on the first syllable. I think they just call my parents Gramma and Grampa. Which is what I called all of mine.
The only unusual in our family is my father's maternal grandparents: Mormor and Pomps. Mormor is swedish,but I have no idea where Pomps came from. It has no relation to his given name, or the swedish for grandfather.